Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-23

John Taylor. of Virginia,
Writes ON IAN imports
unit subject.

EDITOR CARSON APPEAL: - An
article published in Your valuable
paper on tire ruined little girls of
Carson has been almost the sole
| topic of conversation in this place
during the past few days, comment
| ing on the terrible affair. Some
would say. that damn Doctor ought
70 be tarred and feathered, others
that the APPEAL man should be
hanged, drawn and qnartered. Such
remarks could be heard on every
side, but no one seemed to doubt
the truth of the item. Now. / do
not agree with anyone have heard
speak, nor do fully coincide with
! the APPEAL in hanging those misef-
able whelps. Now, Mr.. Editor, con-
tend that the dutiful, wel.-bred
daughter of an honest father and
mother has never vet been ruined.
1t will be observed that the ruined
girls are generally of such an age
that they could not be ruined unless
they wanted to be. \ Carson girl
I'of thirteen, her mothers count,
(she has it down in the prayer
book), is really sixteen. Can she
be ruined without her consent,
against her own free will? No sir;
she is the chief engineer of the
work.
/ have lived for short time in
your beautiful city. and while there
have noticed the girls of well-to-do
parents, nicely but very plainly at
tired. They looked happy, inno-
cent and pure, while the dainty
darling of family on the verge of
beggary might be seen ambling
along tricked out with piles of Jew
elry, SO called, big load of dry
goods upon her back, and in place
where they do no possible good.
This little Miss staggers along un-
der the weight of fifteen dollar pa
rasol. To be sure she is highly ac-
complished she knows that the top
of a map is the North she can do the
scoring for any baseball nine, be-
cause she has been permitted to at
tend all games in Carson on the
Sabbath instead of going to Cnurch.
She will go to the skating rink in
preference to her little bed; all
chippie dances are to her taste
regular feast. To her poor mother
she would say, NAV, I won't do
it," with mean snarl. The father
will not CORRECT her, because, its
down on the book, that she is thirteen
wears a pull back and a hustle, has
her hair made up in ball like
little onion, on the back of her head
and because she has mashed rich
mans son she may be seen at the
depot on the arrival and departure
of trains, coasting the city at all
hours, and giving the leer OF
invitation to all. Is it any wonder
that blackguards will follow such a
girl? But sir they cannot ruin Der,
that was accomplished long ago at
her own home, and by her parents.
That was done when she was allow
ed to eat arsenic for her complexion,
to wear shoes two sizes too small,
to wear long skirts three years be-
fore there was any need of them.
That was done when she was taught
by example to be liar, tattler and
eaves-dropper. Honest Carson pa
rents have girls to whom has been
given good moral education, fit
ting them to fill any sphere they
may be called upon to fill through
life. Do those little girls ever have
any trouble? No sir; the greatest
libertine will not dare to look one
Of them in the face: they are the
only mortals that such men have a
respect for.
The good girls of Carson are the
best have ever seen; the bad are
avast improvement on their parents.
I wish you God speed in the good
work of exposing the pimps of Car
son, and am